Railroad Corporations—Power to Dedicate Land for Highway.— Railroad corporations have the power, if not forbidden by their charters, to dedicate land for a public highway which has been conveyed to them for railroad purposes.

Id.—Dedicated Street—Unlawful User—Prevention by" City—Railroad Company not Damaged.—A railroad, company which has dedicated its land for a public street has thereafter no right to cause a railroad track and warehouses to be built thereon in such a way as to obliterate the street and to take possession thereof to the exclusion of the public; and it is not damaged by being prevented from such unlawful action by the city authorities.

Id.—Proof of Dedication—User of Highway by Public—Statutory Period.—Under a" statute providing that “all roads shall be conceded as public, highways which have been used as such for five years or which may" hereafter be used for five years by the public as a highway,” the use of railroad land by the public as a highway and the repair thereof by the public authorities for that period of time constitute a dedication thereof to the public use, and the right of the public to continue to use the land as a road is thus fixed and established.

Id.—Validity of Statutes—Construction.—The statutes of December' 25, 1877, and March 30, 1878, in relation to highways in Los Angeles County, are not invalid, as embracing more than one subject therein. It is immaterial whether the latter statute operated as a repeal of the former where a dedication was established under the latter! Neither of the statutes can be construed merely as fixing the period of user, and not as defining the character of the user necessary to establish a dedication.

Id.—Extent of User.—Where the evidence tends to show the user of the street to the width found by the court, the fact that the main travel was confined to narrower limits is not conclusive of the width.

Id.—Dedication by Agents.—A grant formally made by the directors of a railroad corporation is not essential to constitute a dedication of land for a public highway; but agents who were in the employ of the railroad company at a city in which a street was dedicated by their consent on behalf of the railroad company bound the company by their action, where their authority to do so was ostensible, and was not questioned or denied by the railroad company, which presumably had knowledge of their notorious action and conduct of its affairs.

Id.—Dedication by Lessee Company — Ostensible Authority from Lessor.—Where the land which was the subject of dedication as a street was deeded for railroad purposes to a railroad company lessor, and was clearly within the control and management of a railroad company lessee, and for the purposes of .the lease could be dealt with by the lessee as the necessity or interest of the business required, and the public authorities and the general public had reason to believe that the lessee company had full authority to dedicate the street, and there is evidence that such belief was intentionally engendered by the lessor company, the lessee company had ostensible authority to bind the lessor company by its dedication.